The US Treasury Department has announced that the protocol amending the income tax treaty between the United States and Sweden will enter into force on 31 August 2006. The protocol was signed on 30 September 2005 and ratified by the US Senate on 31 March 2006. The announcement of the entry into force was made by the Treasury Department's Office of Public Affairs in a released dated 2 August. The announcement states that the protocol amends the current income treaty between the two countries to take into account developments over the last decade, provide for the elimination of source-country withholding...